It's the way I like them most, matched with E.P.& S. type scabbard (I know it's not "a must", but I just like 'em that way).
Great burnishing too. I guess the mysterious "H" is just coincidence. We see multiple dents like that on grips from time to time. Usually they don't look special, but here someone was trying to smash (?) the grip with some tool of special shape, or was banging with the dagger against some object having a detail shaped H - like.